– (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the Greens/Eur
opean Free Alliance have never had much time for the great parliamentary reforms carried out by Mr Corbett – he is a friend of mine and we have worked together for many years, he is aware of this and he will not hold it against me – because they tend to turn our Parliament into a bureaucratic machine where the role of individua
l MEPs and minority groups and even the committees must be subject to the growing, partly arbitrary, decisionmaking pow
...[+++]er of the Conference of Presidents and the administration.